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Abu Khattala, the man suspected of playing a key role in the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, is scheduled to appear in a Washington, D.C. district court for a detention hearing this morning.
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Get yer copy right here. Highlights:
In the days before the Attack, the defendant voiced concern and opposition to the presence of an American facility in Benghazi. On September 11, 2012, at approximatel...
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Here is a "pre-release" version of the report; the PCLOB will adopt a final version at its meeting tomorrow morning. It therefore has offered the still-not-yet-official document to the press and public,...
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Get it? Actually, I don't think they did either. It's a cute coincidence. But at any rate, the PCLOB has announced that it will be releasing its report on FISA 702 collection this evening at 9:00 pm:
The...
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The Washington Post shares the latest disclosure based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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Ahmed Abu Khattala is not the first person to be whisked onto a ship in the Middle East by U.S. forces, interrogated aboard, and then dropped in a U.S. court. There are some recent famous cases, of cours...
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Detailed defense counsel for Ammar al Baluchi, also known as Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, had the following to say today, about a key filing in the 9/11 case:
Today, counsel for Ammar al Baluchi filed a motion ...
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While the rest of the world is watching the Supreme Court's final decision day of the year, it's been a busy time in the cyber world as well. Herewith seven (!) bits and bytes of interest, in no particu...
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The New York Times reports this morning that weeks before Blackwater guards massacred 17 civilians at Bagdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department abandoned an inquiry into the security contracto...
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President Obama has exercised executive power aggressively – as did his predecessor, albeit in different ways. I don’t have time to parse and compare the differences, but in a nutshell (and simplifying ...
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On Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper released the Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities for Calendar Year 2013. The introduction reads:...
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The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Riley v. California that searching a cell phone requires a warrant is groundbreaking---and is, as everyone says, a great step forward for privacy. The decision i...
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From the Borowitz Report at the New Yorker. Pretty excellent.
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For those who follow events relating to armed conflict, including the laws of war, there is a new resource available -- Blue Force Tracker. BFT is an app now available free download on the Apple or Goog...
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Editor's Note: The war in Syria has attracted volunteers to fight from around the world, including from the United States. Although senior U.S. officials have warned of this threat, the legal foundation ...
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All roads lead to Iran---at least in the news these days. There's the nuclear talks, which are coming to a head. There's common interests between the United States and the Islamic Republic in the conflic...
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[Update: A colleague writes in to say that Khatalla may have been in "civilian" custody, formally speaking, all along. That may be; I recall a statement after the capture to the effect that the raid wa...
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The week began with the Department of Justice’s release, under a Second Circuit court ruling, of a redacted version of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo that outlined the government’s justification f...
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I'm surprised this hasn't generated more attention: First, an article in the New York Times yesterday mentioned, right at the very end, the possibility that in addition to the 300 special operators heade...
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